Welcome to the new SLSC Forum

[Dudley Hartz]

Welcome to the South Louisiana Saddle Club's new Message Board and Forum. Everyone is welcome to sign up and post messages, questions and news on this forum. It is free to signup and easy to post replys to a thread or to start your new thread on any subject that you want. All we ask is that you keep it clean because we want all family members to be able to use our forum. ;D

[nancymay]

I think this is a great place to stay in touch and see how everyone is doing during the winter break. Summer and I always miss everybody.
How did the fun show turn out. It sure was a beautiful day. Summer was very sick and still
is.
Hope to hear from you all.

[Kris Hafner]

Hi Guys,

I think this is pretty cool, too. Hope Summer feels better soon, Nancy.

See you at the Awards Party!

Kris

[Dudley Hartz]

The fun show went great with about 15 entries in each event and the weather was perfect! Wish we could have all the shows under blue skies when the temperature was about 70. Hope Summer gets well soon.
Dudley

[lorrielynn]

Hi! everybody, yes we did have fun at the fun show! and yes we did miss you if you were not able to attend.
Lorrie , Julia & Lil Miss Style

[falanna]

Hello Everyone,

I think this is nice to.
Nancy I hope Summer is doing better.
See everyone at the awards party.

I think the shows should start giving high point at the end of each show. What do ya"ll think?
Alanna French

P.S. I have aussie pups for sale $100.00 to all members of SLSC

[Dudley Hartz]

Many years ago we gave away high point awards at the end of each show. That was when we had 15 Board Members working and had one just to keep track of everyone's points all day during each show. They had to add up everyone's points at the end of the show and by the time they were added most of the people had already gone home including the winners so there was no one to watch the presentations and many times the winners were not even there to receive the awards. Now we don't have any Directors or volunteers to sit there and add up the points all day long. After a while it got boring because it was usually the same 3 people who won the awards each show and these were the same people who won most of the awards at the end of the year, so it just meant that the top 3 riders won most of the awards each year and we had less money to spend on awards for the other riders so they got less. The previous association had rules where the top 3 riders won about 90 percent of the awards and the other 10 percent of the awards went to about 15 other people. We changed our rules to where the winners still receive the most but where about 50 other people get to share in the awards. But if enough members want high point awards at the shows, we can do this again and just make adjustments to our membership awards to have more money for the 42 high point awards. We could probably raise the extra money by making membership buckles 40 entry credits instead of 35 and making jackets 70 entry credits instead of 65. We are always looking for new ways to make our club better and we appreciate all your comments and advice. THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[lacber1115]

I would like to invite all my friends from SLSC to our horse show that you're having in Raceland on Sunday, December 3, 2006 starting at 9:00 am with some judged events and followed by the speed events. We are trying to start up our horse shows again for all of our local horsey friends. This will be a mini trial show to see how everything goes. We are strongly thinking about starting up a series of shows in 2007 with the help of all our horse show people. If you have any questions about this show, you may contact me @ 985-856-4429. Thanks again and I hope to see some of you there.

[lorrielynn]

Mr Dudley I would love to help out in any way I can but I am new to this so you & Mrs Sue would have to teach me. I try to help out with setting up but. I guess all I can say is yell when you need help! I've been working on getting some new club members for next year I think I have 2 maybe 3. will we have the judged events back next year? 1 young lady just rides in judged events. The other 2 do both speed & judged events. When I spoke with them it was the Idea of entry credit points that they liked most of all, Knowing that they would get an award at the year end for trying is a big plus for the younger riders. But on the other hand raising to points mean that more people might have to show up for the last few shows. Bring attendance up for those show.

[Dudley Hartz]

Lorrie
Thank you for your offer to help more and for helping us out this year. Sue and I miss the judged events very much as these are the main events we rode in. However, with no participation in these classes to pay for the awards and for the Judges, it would not be possible to have them. We are in the planning stage for next year and know that we will have judged events at least in the Classics. I have been getting in touch with former judged event riders to see if any would like to come back and show again next year and so far the results have been disappointing for various reasons, mostly Katrina related. We are considering adding another Classic next year to enable Judged event riders to be able to get more entry credits toward a membership award and possibly we could make some type of award for 15 entry credits in judged events or possibly raise the entry fee in judged events to help pay for their membership awards with fewer entry credits. I wish we could hear more from the members telling us what they would like us to do. Very few members responded to the question, what changes would you like to see for next year, on the buckle order form. We had a few suggestions, and we acted upon a couple of them already.
MEMBERS: Please use this forum, or phone me, to let us know what changes you would like to see for next year. We may not be able to make all changes for various reasons, but we WILL consider all of them. All changes must be made by December 8 because this is when we write up the schedules and rules for next year so we can have them at the Awards Party on December 16.

[Dudley Hartz]

EVERYONE: You are all invited to attend our awards party on December 16 at 6 pm till midnight at the KC Hall by Immaculata High School at the corner of Avenue D and 6th Street in Marrero. We have this party close to Christmas so that everyone is in the holiday spirit. We want all of you to come with your family and friends with the intention of having fun and enjoying yourselves. We do not have a meeting or discuss controversial subjects at the party because alcoholic beverages are allowed and this would not be the correct venue for such activities. SEE YA! ;D ;D ;D

[lorrielynn]

IMPORTANT
wwltv.com According to the commissioner of Agriculture & Forestry
equine owners have a reason to be on the look out for another horse disease. Outbreaks have been occurring in the southwestern parish for about six month but recently in north La & the Florida parishes have been infected recently.
Symptoms include fever, loss of appetite, listlessness & swelling of the lymph nodes in the neck/ throat area. If a horse displaying these symptoms contact a vet. Strangles is a bacterial infection that can be easily spread from horse to horse especially during horse show/ trail rides or any time we take our horses around other horses. this info came off of wwltv.com then go to northshore news HORSE OWNERS BEWARE OF ANOTHER DISEASE

[lorrielynn]

MERRY CHRISTMAS to all our horse friends at SLSC!
Lorrie, Julia & lil Miss

[bethsmanecorral]

Good Morning to all!
I'm very happy to be apart of this forum and to be able to share info with "horse people" and the "SOUTH LOUISIANA SADDLE CLUB" people. Hope everyones Christmas was wonderful and have a great New Years! Have a great hoofkickin' day!
Beth and Ruby

[markonrebel]

Hello everyone, Mark Jr. and I have been hitting a few shows on the northshore. He has been doing very well with "Dixie" winning 1st or 2nd in every class. But, we are mostly looking forward to our SLSC 2007 shows. The other shows don't really compare to the quality of the show and the stiff competition you guys offer. It makes us better riders. We also miss all of you, our friends. We are dedicated to the SLSC.
The arena at Church Hill isn't as bad as it looks. It still has a firm pack to the sand. As long as the rain gives us a little break we should be ok for the fun show. Oh and Rebel is starting to keep all 4 hooves on the ground so strap your boots on tight the competition is going to get tougher. Mark and I look forward to seeing all of you at the next show.